'Resolve Parallel Pathway issue without amending Medical Act'

A group of health and medical professors believe that Parallel Pathway graduates could be made specialists without needing to amend the Medical Act 1971 (Act 50).

The group’s chief Dr Noor Hassim Ismail said the programme’s graduates can be registered as specialist doctors without amending the act as the current law allows them to be absorbed into local programmes through credit transfer or curriculum mapping.

“After undergoing training, they will be...